Common Secure Server Setups For Your Web Application

I have been receiving many queries from my industry peers regarding the best practice recommendations to securely deploy a web server. In many places the common observation was deploying the web server (i.e. Apache) database server (i.e. MySQL) in a single server. Server could be a physical machine...

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Ransomware for Mobile Devices on the Rise

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } In year 2016 and 2017, malware researchers have spotted a rapid growth in mobile malware including ransomware. Most of the smart phones and other mobile devices either receive no or late operating system...

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Update (Offline) Ubuntu 16.04 Kernal to Latest Version

Recently I was experiencing Wifi connectivity issue on my Ubuntu 16.04. It was running on Ubuntu 16.04 kernal version 4.4.0.x. Even though #lspci command output showed the presence of WiFi Network card, it was not detected by the Ubuntu Network Manager. After couple of trial and error attempts, I decided...

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Ransomware Worm Attack - WannaCry

Ransomware attacks dubbed as “WannaCry” started to spread around the world on the 12th May 2017. In these attacks, data is encrypted with the extension “.WCRY” added to the file names. According to the reports, this attack initiated through an SMBv2 remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft...

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